Alarm bells have been set ringing across Europe over a buildup of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine in recent months. Here's what to know.
is contemplating a rerun of 2014, when Russian forces annexed the Crimean peninsula and provided support for a separatist, pro-Russian insurgency in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Moscow denies having any plans to invade, but U.S. officials have said such a move is possible.
President Biden has ruled out sending combat troops to Ukraine, but has warned Mr. Putin that the U.S. and its allies would meet a military invasion of UkraineThe two sides beganin Geneva on Monday, and Mr. Biden has assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that his country and other eastern-flank nations would be included in the discussions.
Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at security talks in Geneva on Monday.Russia hasn’t revealed much information about the scale of its troop deployment on the Ukrainian border. U.S. officials, however, say Mr. Putin is assembling a force that is expected to total 175,000 troops, giving him the means to order an invasion by early 2022.
In addition to warning Russia of potentially grave consequences if it invades Ukraine, the U.S. is also pursuing avenues of diplomacy in an attempt to defuse tensions. Mr. Biden has reaffirmed U.S. support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and urged Mr. Putin to return to diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region, where Kyiv is fighting Russian-backed separatists.
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